In our latest YouTube video, we talk about photographer characters. Whether they are people we know or strangers we encounter in public, these characters provide us as photographers great opportunities to make unique and beautiful portraits. Even without the benefit of lighting, expensive equipment or even control over the environment, we still have many choices we can make to make a wonderful image.

It's these choices that allow us to become part of the photograph, and raises the image above the level of snapshot. Using examples of photographs submitted to The Candid Frame Flickr pool, Ibarionex shares his insights into why these images work and what each of can do to make our next portrait opportunity a winner.